"We have already said a hundred times that in such a case they would become a legitimate target for our armed forces," Lavrov said in an interview with the state news agency Tass.
The high-profile interview is published just hours before Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is to meet US President Donald Trump in Florida to discuss a peace settlement for the war in Ukraine and security guarantees.
In the interview, Lavrov claims that European politicians are driven by "ambitions" in their relationship with the Ukrainian government, and that this causes them to overlook both the Ukrainian population and their own populations. He particularly targets the so-called "Coalition of the Willing", a group of countries that support Ukraine, including Sweden.
